Method for the removal and the further processing of tablets or pills or the like derived from a tablet press and a device for performing the method

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a process for removing tablets or pills or the like issuing from a tablet or pill press and processing them further in a plurality of containers (125, 126, 127) standing cramped on a restricted area. After leaving the tablet or pill press, the tablets or pills are conveyed upwards and, by gravity alone without the application of further energy, pass from top to bottom through an oblique deburring and dust-removing station (12) and a distributing guide (15) to divide the flow of tablets or pills into two partial streams which are taken to either a metal testing device (18) or a tablet or pill testing device (19) with a sample collector (22); the tablets or pills found to be faultless are taken further by gravity to a belt conveyor (107, 112) which takes the tablets or pills to and inserts them in a predetermined container (125, 126, 127).

TECHNICAL FIELD

The invention relates to a method for the removal and further processingof tablets or pills or the like coming from a tablet press or from apill press into a plurality of containers, disposed on a smallrestricted surface support area, and to a device for the performance ofthe method.

STATE OF THE ART

The tablets or pills coming from a tablet press or a pill press have tobe further treated in the following and be removed. It is known for thispurpose to transport the tablets or pills into a deburring anddust-removing station, where the tablets or pills are usually placedwith a distributing guide onto two conveyor belts which in turntransport the tablets or pills again upwardly and feed the tablets orpills either to a metal testing apparatus or to a tablet testing device.In the following, the tablets or pills are fed to a distributor systemand are filled into containers, where the containers are usually broughtto the filling location in a long sequential row on conveyor belts. Ingeneral, the filled containers or barrels have to be individuallyremoved by the operating personnel.

The disadvantage of the conventional handling of the tablets or pillscomprises that the tablets have to be lifted up several times on theirpath of removal and of further processing, be it by way of conveyorbelts or be it by way of air streams.

Similarly, the known conveyors for the handling of tablets or pillsrequire lots of space corresponding to their length for theirpositioning and the known conveyors are not suitable to provide thefeeding of a plurality of containers on a most narrow space, where theplurality of containers are tightly packed into a small restricted area.Therefore, the different required aggregates in connection with thetablet production and pill production are disposed around the tabletpress or the pill press, and therefore the overall space requirement fora tablet press or a pill press together with all required aggregates,including the filling of the tablets or pills into the containers, issubstantial.

A device for the calibrated measuring and sorting of tablets has becomeknown from the U.S. Pat. No. 3,294,235, which device measures the sizeof the individual tablets, wherein the tablets are transported for theperformance of the measuring process downwardly by way of gravity force.

TECHNICAL PURPOSE

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of theinitially recited kind, which allows to remove and to further processtablets or pills, including the filling of the containers or barrels, ona smallest possible restricted area. Furthermore, it is an object of theinvention to provide a device, which combines all aggregates, requiredfor the removal and the further processing of the tablets or pills afterthe pressing process, on a smallest possible restricted area includingthe filling of the containers or barrels.

Presentation of the Invention and Its Advantages

The solution of the object comprises according to the invention that thetablets or pills are transported upwardly after leaving the tablet pressor the pill press and then the tablets or pills are passing from top tobottom through an obliquely inclined disposed deburring and dustremovingstation, as well as a distributing guide for the subdivision of the flowof tablets or pills into two partial streams based solely on the forceof gravity without the application of further energy. The two partialstreams are either fed to a metal testing apparatus or to a tablettesting device or to a pill testing device with a sample collector. Thetablets or pills found to be faultless in the metal testing apparatusare taken further by gravity to a conveyor belt, where the conveyor beltis directed toward a predetermined container and fills the tablets orpills into the container.

An apparatus for the performance of the method comprises a standingcolumn, where a transport device leads to the upper end of the standingcolumn. The transport device adjoins into a deburring and dust-removingstation, disposed on top of the standing column. The deburring anddust-removing station is disposed inclined downwardly and is furnishedat its lower end with at least one output. The one output leads to ametal testing apparatus, disposed below the deburring and dust-removingstation at the standing column. If desired, another output leads to atablet testing device with sample collector, disposed also below thedeburring and dust-removing station at the standing column. The outputline from the metal testing apparatus is disposed inclined downwardly toa belt conveyor for the tablets or pills found to be faultless. The beltconveyor is disposed at the standing column.

The apparatus for removal and further processing of tablets or pills orthe like, delivered from a tablet press or pill press into a pluralityof container can exhibit a balance scale for the tablets or pills.

The method according to the invention is associated with the advantagethat with this method a further processing and removal of the tablets orpills leaving a tablet press or pill press can be performed confined toa most restricted area by combining all processing steps including thefilling of the tablets or pills, by lifting the tablets or pills onlyone single further time for the deburring and dust-removing process.Then the tablets or pills are passed by gravity alone through thedifferent stations for the processing, where the different stations forthe processing are disposable within a restricted area. Intermediatelydisposed transport conveyors for the renewed transporting upwardly ofthe tablets or pills for a further processing step can be dispensed withafter the deburring and dust-removal.

The apparatus according to the invention is associated with theadvantage that all required aggregates are combined in a respectiveintegral coordination on a smallest space such that the individualline-up and installation of the devices, required after a tablet pressor pill press, can be dispensed with. The apparatus is thereby capableto control and to fill a plurality of barrels, where the plurality ofbarrels is grouped like a matrix or like a field around the apparatus.The invention apparatus, combining a deburring - dust-removing station,a metal testing apparatus, a tablet testing device, possibly a balancingscale, and a transport conveyor to the containers or barrels, onlyrequires a fraction of the space which the conventional apparatusindividually require after a tablet press or a pill press. The inventionmethod and the invention apparatus thus represent a complete removal andfurther processing system for tablets or pills up to the barrel.

The transport belt conveyor employed in the apparatus is associated withthe advantage that the transport belt conveyor is capable to supply andfill containers standing most narrowly spaced on a restricted area anddisposed in the shape of an arbitrary field or of an arbitrary matrixwithout that the containers have to be disposed for example along acircular path. Based on the relative movability of the two transportconveyor belts relative to each other and based on the possibility ofthe swivelling of the transport conveyor belts and on the reversibilityof the course of direction of the transport conveyor belts, containerscan be filled, which containers are, on the one hand, disposed in theswivelling radius with the largest diameter of the served area and, onthe other hand, disposed below the transport conveyor belts. Based onthe additional height-level adjustability of the transport beltconveyor, also containers of different height level can be filled.

Advantageously, the feeding of the bulk material onto the uppertransport conveyor belt is performed by the hinge axle of the support.The upper support is swivelably supported at one end and is capable ofbeing rotated in a horizontal direction along a circular path. Therotation axis is disposed perpendicular to the upper transport conveyorbelt. The lower support together with the lower transport conveyor beltin the region of one of its ends is shiftably disposed at the uppersupport.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

showing that

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of the device;

FIG. 2 is a view, rotated by 90°, of the device according to FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top plan view onto FIG. 1 with the representation of thefeeding radius of the transport conveyor device into the containers orbarrels;

FIG. 4 is a view of the transport belt conveyor, comprising in principletwo transport conveyor belts, where the transport belt conveyor isattached at the lifting column of the apparatus, where the transportbelt conveyor is swivelable in the horizontal direction, and where thetransport belt conveyor is movable to different height levels;

FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of the apparatus of FIG. 4; and

FIG. 6 is a sectional view along section line 6--6 of FIG. 5 uponelimination of the coverings of the box-shaped supports and of thesupport arm of the upper support.

The device 10 comprises a standing column 100 on a foot 101. Thestanding column 100 can be a lifting column and can carry a support 102.A column 11 is attached on the support 102. The column 11 exhibits atits upper end an inclined disposed deburring and dust-removing station12. A filling funnel 13 with a feed line 14 is disposed at the upper endof the deburring and dust-removing station 12. The feed line 14 can beprovided as a venturi nozzle or as a transport conveyor belt. Thedeburring and dust-removing station 12 exhibits at its lower endpreferably a distributing guide 15 for the subdivision of the tabletstream or of the pill stream into two partial streams. The one partialstream is fed to a metal testing apparatus 18 through a distributingguide output 16 by way of force of gravity. The metal testing apparatus18 is disposed with respect to its height level below the lower outputof the deburring and dust-removing station 12. The second partial streamis fed also by way of force of gravity through a distributing guideoutput 17 to a tablet testing device 19. The tablets are testedaccording to different parameters, such as weight, height level,thickness, diameter, and hardness, in the tablet testing device 19, andthe tablets are sorted by way of an apportioning device 20 and areplaced into different sample containers 21, 21', also based on the forceof gravity. The sample containers 21, 21' are disposed in a samplecollector, where the sample collector is disposed on a table 22 of thetablet testing device 19. The table 22 is preferably slidable in the x-yplane in a horizontal direction relative to the support 102.

The tablets or pills can in addition be weighed prior to or after themetal testing apparatus 18.

The tablets found to be good and acceptable in the metal testingapparatus 18 are delivered, based on gravity force, through the outputline 23 further to a transport belt conveyor 107, 112. The transportbelt conveyor 107, 112 is directed to a predetermined container 125,126, 127 or barrel for receiving the tablets or pills and fills thetablets or pills into the corresponding container. The tablets found tobe not acceptable are sorted out and fall into a waste container 30.

The support 102, which can be provided adjustable in its height level,carries all the aggregates, required for the removal and furtherprocessing, including the transport belt conveyor 107, 112. The tabletsor pills pass through all aggregates only based on the force of gravityand are lifted only once to the height level of the filling funnel 13 atthe input of the deburring and dust-removing station 12 by way of thefeed line 14.

A top plan view onto the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 is shown in FIG. 3.The transport belt conveyor can fill a plurality of containers disposedwithin a radius 29 of action, wherein the plurality of containers isdisposed within the range 24 of action of the transport belt conveyor107, 112, for example, disposed on pallets 25, 26, 27, 28. It can inparticular be gathered from this figure that the apparatus can bedirected to and can fill a plurality of containers or barrels, accordingto a sequence of control criteria, in a restricted area.

According to FIGS. 4 through 6, the transport belt conveyor includes anupper elongated, box-shaped support, which is preferably provided as abox 104. In each case a deflection roller 105, 106 is disposed on theside at the ends of the box 104. A transport conveyor belt 107 is loopedaround the deflection rollers 105, 106. The deflection rollers 105, 106are positioned on shafts 128, 128' for being driven. The shafts 128,128' are supported in a suitable way within the box 104. Furtherdeflection rollers 113, 114 are sitting on the shafts 128, 128' withinthe box 104. A drive belt 115 is running on the further deflectionrollers 113, 114. The deflection roller 113 or, respectively, the shaft128' is driven by way of an electric motor 116. The electric motor 116is disposed in a space-saving manner within the free space between thecarrying run and the return run of the drive belt 115. In this way, thetwo shafts 128, 128' and, thus, the two deflection rollers 105, 106 forthe transport belt 107 are driven.

A further longitudinally disposed, automatic drive is furnished withinthe box 104. The automatic drive can for example be a threaded spindle117 or a gear rack or a drive belt, disposed longitudinally inside thebox 104. A linearly shiftable slider carriage 108 is disposed at thisautomatic drive. The slider carriage 108 protrudes downwardly out of thebox 104 and a second elongated box-shaped support is disposed at thecarriage slider 108. The second elongated box-shaped support ispreferably also a box 109, where the box 109 can be constructed similarto the box 104. The carriage slider 108 is preferably engaging at oneend of the box 109 and supports the box 109 in a horizontal position.

Similarly, the lower support 109 exhibits at its ends also on its sidesin each case a deflection roller 110, 111, wherein a transport conveyorbelt 112 is again looped around the deflection rollers 110, 111. Fordriving the deflection rollers 110, 111, these deflection rollers 110,111 are supported on shafts 129, 129'. The shafts 129, 129' are alsosupported in a suitable way within the box 109. Further deflectionrollers 118, 119 are sitting on the shafts 129, 129' within the box 109.A drive belt 120 runs over the further deflection rollers 118, 119. Thedeflection roller 118 or, respectively, the shaft 129' is driven by wayof an electric motor 121. The electric motor 121 is disposed in aspace-saving manner within the free space between the carrying run andthe return run of the drive belt 120. In this way, the two shafts 129,129' and, thus, the two deflection rollers 110, 111 for the transportbelt 112 are driven in like manner. The two boxes 104, 109 together withthe transport conveyor belts 107, 112 can be similar with the exceptionof different lengths.

The boxes 104, 109 and the two transport belts 107 and 112 are disposedon top of each other along their sides and are aligned parallel to eachother and are preferably directed in a horizontal direction. Upondriving of the slider carriage 108 by way of its own motor (notillustrated) or by way of the gear rack or threaded spindle 117, thelower transport conveyor belt is moved forwardly and backwardly in twodirections in longitudinal direction according to the moving directiondouble arrow 130 below the upper transport conveyor belt 107.Simultaneously, the running direction of the transport conveyor beltscan be controlled as desired. According to the relative positionillustrated in FIG. 1 of the two transport conveyor belts 107, 112relative to each other, the outermost left container 125 is filled uponrotation of the two transport conveyor belts in counterclockwisedirection. In case of a rotation of the upper transport conveyor belt107 in counterclockwise direction, but a rotation of the lower transportconveyor belt 102 in clockwise direction, the right container 127 isbeing filled.

A support arm 124 engages at one of its ends at the upper box 104. Thesupport arm 124 projects into the direction of the upper transportconveyor belt 107. A hinge 103 engages at the end of the support arm124. The rotation axis 122 of the hinge 103 runs perpendicular to theplane of the center region of the end of the transport conveyor belt 107and is standing on the transport conveyor belt 107. The hinge 103 isattached in a suitable way at the support 102. The support 102 ismounted on the lifting column 100. The lifting column 100 rests on thefoot 101. The support 102 carries, in addition to the remainingaggregates, also the boxes 104, 109 including the transport conveyorbelts 107, 112.

The hinge is furnished with a feed 132 for the bulk material. The hinge103 is preferably of tubular shape and the feed 132 is thus performedthrough the hinge 103. In this way, the bulk material is transported inan advantageous way directly onto the upper transport conveyor belt 107through the rotation axle 122 of the hinge 103. The support 102 ismovable for changing a height level relative to the lifting column 100according to the motion direction double arrow 131.

Commercial Application

The method according to the present invention and the inventionapparatus are in particular suitable for the removal and the furtherprocessing in a most restricted space of tablets or pills delivered by atablet press or pill press, wherein the tablets or pills are to befilled into containers or barrels.

    ______________________________________    List of Reference Numerals    ______________________________________     10            filling station     11            column     12            deburring and dust-removing station     13            filling funnel     14            feed line     15            distributing guide     16, 17        distributing guide outputs     18            metal testing apparatus     19            tablet testing device     20            apportioning pipe     21, 21'       sample container     22            sample collector in shape of a table     23            output line     24            range of action     25, 26, 27, 28                   pallets     29            radius of action     30            waste container    100            lifting column    101            foot of the lifting column    102            support    103            hinge    104, 109       box-shaped supports    105, 106, 110, 111, 113, 114                   deflection rollers    107, 112       transport conveyor belts    108            slider carriage    115, 120       drive belts    116, 121       electric motors    117            gear rack or threaded spindle    118, 119       deflection rollers    122            rotation axis    123, 130, 131, 133                   moving direction arrows    124            support arm    125, 126, 127  containers    128, 128', 129, 129'                   shafts    132            feed    ______________________________________

I claim:
 1. Method for removal and further processing of tablets orpills derived from a tablet press or pill press into a plurality ofclosely spaced containers standing on a restricted area, comprising thesteps ofdischarging the tablets or pills from a tablet press or pillpress, whereby the tablets or pills form a tablet stream or pill stream;transporting the tablet stream or pill stream upwardly; passing thetablet stream or pill stream, driven by gravity alone without addingadditional energy, from an upper position to a lower position through adeburring and dust-removing station (12); passing the tablet stream orpill stream driven by gravity alone through a distributing guide (15)for subdividing the tablet stream or pill stream into two partialstreams; feeding the partial streams driven by gravity alone to a metaltesting apparatus (18) and to a tablet or pill testing device (19);placing the tablets or pills, found to be good and acceptable in themetal testing apparatus (18), based on gravity onto a transport beltconveyor (107, 112); directing the transport belt conveyor (107, 112) toa predetermined container (125, 126, 127) being one of the plurality ofcontainers; and filling the tablets or pills from the transport beltconveyor (107, 112) into the predetermined container (125, 126, 127). 2.Method according to claim 1, further comprising the step ofweighing thetablets or pills in addition prior to feeding same to the metal testingapparatus (18).
 3. Method according to claim 1, further comprising thesteps ofweighing the tablets or pills in addition after passing throughthe metal testing apparatus (18) and prior to being placed onto thetransport belt conveyor (107, 112); adjusting a height level of thetransport belt conveyor to a height of the plurality of containers;closely placing the plurality of containers in a restricted area andtransporting the tablets or pills along an inclined plane downward;filling tablets or pills sorted by the tablet or pill testing device,based on gravity into sample containers disposed in the samplecollector; discarding the pills found to be not good.
 4. Methodaccording to claim 1, further comprising a sample collector (22)associated with the tablet or pill testing device.
 5. Apparatus forremoval and further processing of tablets or pills, delivered from atablet press or pill press into a plurality of containers for performingthe method according to claim 1, whereinsaid apparatus comprises astanding column (100), wherein a transport device (13, 14) leads to theupper end of the standing column (100), wherein the transport device(13, 14) adjoins into a deburring and dust-removing station (12)disposed on top of the standing column (100) for feeding a tablet streamor pill stream by gravity alone into the deburring and dust-removingstation (12), wherein the deburring and dust-removing station (12) isdisposed inclined downwardly, and wherein at least one output (16, 17)is furnished at the lower end of the deburring and dust-removing station(12), wherein one output (16) of the deburring and dust-removing station(12) leads to a metal testing apparatus (18), disposed below thedeburring and dust-removing station (12) at the standing column (100)for feeding the tablet stream or pill stream by gravity alone to themetal testing apparatus (18), and wherein a second output (17) of thedeburring and dust-removing station (12) leads to a tablet testingdevice (19) with a sample collector (22) for feeding the tablet streamor pill stream by gravity alone to the tablet testing device (19), alsodisposed below the deburring and dust-removing station (12) at thestanding column (100), wherein an output line (23) leads from the metaltesting apparatus (18) for the tablets or pills found to be good andacceptable inclined downwardly onto a transport belt conveyor (107,112), wherein the tablets or pills found to be not good are discarded,wherein the transport belt conveyor (107, 112) is disposed at thestanding column (100), and wherein the standing column (100) ispreferably a lifting column (100).
 6. Apparatus according to claim 5,wherein the deburring and dust-removing station (12), the metal testingapparatus (18), and the tablet testing device (19) with the samplecollector (22), as well as the transport belt conveyor (107, 112) aredisposed on a support (102), wherein the support (102) is disposedshiftable for changing its height level at the standing column (100). 7.Apparatus according to claim 5, whereinthe apparatus exhibits a balancescale (8) for the tablets or pills.
 8. Apparatus according to claim 5,whereina) the transport belt conveyor (107, 112) exhibits an elongated,box-shaped support (104), wherein in each case a deflection roller (105,106) is disposed laterally at the ends of the elongated, box-shapedsupport (104), and wherein a transport conveyor belt (107) is loopedaround the deflection rollers (105, 106), b) a second elongated,box-shaped support (109) is disposed below the support (104), whereinthe second elongated, box-shaped support (109) exhibits laterally on itsends also a deflection roller (110, 111), wherein a transport conveyorbelt (112) is looped around the deflection rollers (110, 111), whereinthe two transport conveyor belts (105, 106, 107; 110, 111, 112) aredisposed on top of each other along their longitudinal sides, c) thelower support (109) is movably suspended at the upper support (104) andis movable together with the lower transport conveyor belt (110, 111,112) relative to the upper support (104) in longitudinal direction ofthe transport conveyor belts (107, 112), however, independent of themotion of the transport conveyor belts, d) the running direction of thelower transport conveyor belt (112) is reversible.
 9. Apparatusaccording to claim 8, wherein the deflection rollers (105, 106; 110,111) are placed on shafts (128, 129), horizontally protruding from thesupports (104, 109), for the purpose of driving the transport conveyorbelts (107, 112), wherein also deflection rollers (113, 114; 118, 119)are disposed on the shafts (128, 129) within the supports (104, 109),wherein drive belts (115, 120) are looped around the deflection rollers(113, 114; 118, 119), wherein in each case one of the deflection rollers(113, 118) is drivable within the supports (104, 109) by way of anelectric motor (116, 121), wherein the electric motors (116, 121) aredisposed within the free space between the respective carrying run andthe return run of the drive belts (115, 120).
 10. Apparatus according toclaim 8, whereinthe upper support is suspended from a hinge (103),wherein the hinge (103) is supported at a support (102), wherein thesupport (102) can be moved for changing height level at a lifting column(100) for the adjustability of the height level of the transport beltconveyor.
 11. Apparatus according to claim 8, whereinthe length of thelower transport conveyor belt (110, 111, 112) amounts to between halfand three quarters of the upper transport conveyor belt (105, 106, 107),and is preferably half as long as the upper transport conveyor belt(105, 106, 107).
 12. Apparatus according to claim 8, whereinthe upperelongated, box-shaped support (104) is supported swivelable at one endon a circular path in the horizontal plane, wherein the rotation axis(123) is placed onto and perpendicular to the upper transport conveyorbelt (107), and wherein the feed of the bulk material onto the uppermosttransport conveyor belt (107) is performed by the rotation axle (123) ofthe support (104), and wherein the lower support (109) in the area ofits ends is shiftably disposed at the upper support (104), and whereinthe transport conveyor belts (105, 106, 107; 110, 111, 112) are disposedparallel superpositioned and linearly movable relative to each other indirection of their longitudinal axes.
 13. Apparatus according to claim12, further comprising a gear rack or a threaded spindle (117) isdisposed within the upper support (104) in a longitudinal direction,wherein a self-driven slider carriage (108) runs shiftably on thethreaded spindle (117), wherein the lower support (109) is attachedtogether with the lower transport conveyor belt (112) at the slidercarriage (108), wherein driving the slider carriage is performedmechanically within the upper support by way of a drive belt, andwherein the slider carriage is guided and supported in a rail-likeslider carriage guide.
 14. An apparatus for removal and furtherprocessing of tablets and pills, delivered from a tablet and pill pressinto a plurality of containers, comprising a standing column (100)having an upper end and;a transport device (13, 14) leading to the upperend of the standing column (100); a deburring and dust-removing station(12) having an upper end and a lower end and disposed on the upper endof the standing column (100), wherein an upper end of the transportdevice (13, 14) adjoins into the deburring and dust-removing station(12), and wherein the deburring and dust-removing station (12) isdisposed downwardly inclined for feeding a tablet stream or pill streamby gravity alone into the deburring and dust-removing station (12); atleast one output (16) furnished at the lower end of the deburring anddust-removing station (12); a metal testing apparatus (18) disposedbelow the deburring and dust-removing station (12) at the column (100),wherein the output (16) of the deburring and dust-removing station (12)leads to the metal testing apparatus (18) for feeding the tablet streamor pill stream by gravity alone to the metal testing apparatus an outputline (23) disposed at the metal testing apparatus (18); a firsttransport belt conveyor (107), and a second transport belt conveyor(112) disposed at the standing column, wherein the output line (23) isinclined in a direction of one of the first transport belt conveyor(107) and of the second transport belt conveyor (112); closely spacedcontainers disposed below the transport belt conveyors (107, 112);wherein the tablets or pills found to be good and acceptable in themetal testing apparatus (18) are discharged from the metal testingapparatus (18) onto the first transport belt conveyor (107) and onto thesecond transport belt conveyor (112) and then placed into apredetermined container of the closely spaced containers and wherein thetablets or pills found to be not good and acceptable are discarded. 15.The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprisinga balance scale(8) for weighing the tablets and pills delivered by the deburring anddust-removing station (12).
 16. The apparatus according to claim 14,further comprisinga balance scale (8) for weighing the tablets and pillsdelivered by the metal testing apparatus (18).
 17. The apparatusaccording to claim 14, wherein the standing column (100) is a liftingcolumn.
 18. The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprisingasecond output (17) of the deburring and dust-removing station (12); atablet testing device (19) with a sample collector (22) disposed belowthe deburring and dust-removing station (12) at the standing column(100), wherein the second output (17) leads to the tablet testing device(19).
 19. The apparatus according to claim 18, further comprisingasupport (102) disposed at the standing column (100), where the support(102) is adjustable in height by shifting, wherein the deburring anddust-removing station (12), the metal testing apparatus (18), and thetablet testing device (19) with the sample collector (22), as well asthe transport belt conveyor (107, 112) are disposed on said support(102).
 20. The apparatus according to claim 14, whereinthe firsttransport belt conveyor (107) comprisesa first elongated, box-shapedsupport (104) having a first end and a second end, a first deflectionroller (105) disposed laterally at the first end of the first elongated,box-shaped support (104), a second deflection roller (106) disposedlaterally at the second end of the first elongated, box-shaped support(104, a first transport conveyor belt (107) looped around the firstdeflection roller (105) and the second deflection roller (106); andwherein the second transport belt conveyor (112) comprisesa secondelongated, box-shaped support (109) disposed below the first elongated,box-shaped support (104) and having a first end and a second end, athird deflection roller (110) disposed laterally at the first end of thesecond elongated, box-shaped support (109), a fourth deflection roller(111) disposed laterally at the second end of the second elongated,box-shaped support (109), a second transport conveyor belt (112) loopedaround the third deflection roller (110) and the fourth deflectionroller (111); wherein the first transport belt conveyor (107) and thesecond transport belt conveyor (112) are disposed on top of each otheralong their longitudinal sides, wherein the second elongated, box-shapedsupport (109) is movably suspended from the first elongated, box-shapedsupport (104) and is movable relative to the first elongated, box-shapedsupport (104) in longitudinal direction of the first transport conveyorbelt (107), and wherein a motion of the second transport conveyor belt(112) is independent of a motion of the first transport conveyor belt(107), and wherein a running direction of the first transport conveyorbelt (107) and the second transport conveyor belt (112) is reversible.21. The apparatus according to claim 16, further comprisinga first shaft(128) and a third shaft (128') horizontally protruding from the firstelongated, box-shaped support (104) and receiving the first deflectionroller (105) and the second deflection roller (106), respectively, fordriving the first transport conveyor belt (107); a second shaft (129)and a fourth shaft (129') horizontally protruding from the secondelongated, box-shaped support (109) and receiving the third deflectionroller (110) and the fourth deflection roller (111), respectively, fordriving the second transport conveyor belt (112); a fifth deflectionroller (113) disposed on the first shaft (128) within the firstelongated, box-shaped support (104); a sixth deflection roller (114)disposed on the third shaft (128') within the first elongated,box-shaped support (104); a seventh deflection roller (118) disposed onthe second shaft (129) within the second elongated, box-shaped support(109); an eighth deflection roller (119) disposed on the fourth shaft(129') within the second elongated, box-shaped support (109); a firstdrive belt (115) looping around the fifth deflection roller (113) andthe sixth deflection roller (114) and having a free space between acarrying run and a return run; a second drive belt (120) looping aroundthe seventh deflection roller (118) and the eighth deflection roller(119) and having a free space between a carrying run and a return run; afirst electric motor (116) driving the fifth deflection roller (113)within the first elongated, box-shaped support (104) and disposed withinthe free space between the carrying run and the return run of the drivebelt (115); a second electric motor (121) driving the seventh deflectionroller (118) within the second elongated, box-shaped support (109) anddisposed within the free space between the carrying run and the returnrun of the drive belt (120).
 22. The apparatus according to claim 16,further comprisinga support (102) disposed at the column (100); a hinge(103) supported at the support (102); wherein the first elongated,box-shaped support (104) is suspended from the hinge (103), and whereinthe support (102) can be moved for changing height level at the standingcolumn (100) for adjusting height levels of the first transport beltconveyor (107) and the second transport belt conveyor (112).
 23. Theapparatus according to claim 16, wherein the length of the secondtransport conveyor belt (112) amounts to between one half and threequarters of the first transport conveyor belt (107), and is preferablyone half as long as the first transport conveyor belt (107).
 24. Theapparatus according to claim 20, whereinthe first end of the firstelongated, box-shaped support (104) is supported swivelable on acircular path in a horizontal plane, wherein a rotation axis (123) ofthe first elongated, box-shaped support (104) swivelling in thehorizontal plane is placed perpendicular to the first transport conveyorbelt (107), and wherein the tablets or pills found to be good andacceptable are fed onto the first transport conveyor belt (107) througha tubular-shaped hinge (103) rotated around the rotation axis (123) ofthe first elongated, box-shaped support (104), and wherein the secondelongated, box-shaped support (109) in the area of its first end isshiftably disposed at the first elongated, box-shaped support (104), andwherein the first transport conveyor belt (107) with the firstdeflection roller (105) and the second deflection roller (106), and thesecond transport conveyor belt (112) with the third deflection roller(110) and the fourth deflection roller (111) are superpositioned. 25.The apparatus according to claim 24, further comprisingan automaticdrive (117) disposed within the first elongated, box-shaped support(104) in a longitudinal direction; a self-driven slider carriage (108)running shiftably on said automatic drive (117), wherein the secondelongated, box-shaped support (109) is attached together with the secondtransport conveyor belt (112) at the self-driven slider carriage (108),and wherein the self-driven slider carriage (108) is driven mechanicallywithin the first elongated, box-shaped support (104); a rail-like slidercarriage guide, wherein the self-driven slider carriage is guided andsupported in the rail-like slider carriage guide.
 26. The apparatusaccording to claim 25, wherein the automatic drive is furnished by agear rack.
 27. The apparatus according to claim 25, wherein theautomatic drive is furnished by a threaded spindle.
 28. An apparatus forremoval and further processing of tablets and pills, delivered from atablet and pill press into a plurality of containers, comprisingastanding column (100) having an upper end and carrying a supportprovided with adjustable height level and disposed at the upper end ofthe standing column; a column (11) attached to the support (102); atransport device (13, 14) leading to a top of the column (11); adeburring and dust-removing station (12) having an upper end and a lowerend and disposed on the top of the column (11), wherein an upper end ofthe transport device (13, 14) adjoins into the deburring anddust-removing station (12), and wherein the deburring and dust-removingstation (12) is disposed downwardly inclined for feeding a tablet streamor pill stream by gravity alone into the deburring and dustremovingstation (12); at least one output (16) furnished at the lower end of thedeburring and dust-removing station (12); a metal testing apparatus (18)disposed below the deburring and dust-removing station (12) at thecolumn (11), wherein the output (16) of the deburring and dust-removingstation (12) leads to the metal testing apparatus (18) for feeding thetablet stream or pill stream by gravity alone to the metal testingapparatus (18); an output line (23) disposed at the metal testingapparatus (18); a first transport belt conveyor (107), and a secondtransport belt conveyor (112) disposed at the support (102) carried bythe standing column, wherein the output line (23) is inclined in adirection of one of the first transport belt conveyor (107) and secondtransport belt conveyor (112); closely spaced containers disposed belowthe transport belt conveyors (107, 112); wherein tablets or pills foundto be good and acceptable in the metal testing apparatus (18) aredischarged from the metal testing apparatus (18) onto the firsttransport belt conveyor (107) and onto the second transport beltconveyor (112) and then placed into a predetermined container of theclosely spaced containers and wherein tablets or pills found to be notgood and acceptable are discarded.